Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K

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Core i7 3960X
September 09 2019
  17 Hours, 15 Minutes
Ryzen 5 2600X
September 11 2019
  3 Hours, 30 Minutes
Ryzen 5 3600X
September 12 2019
  3 Hours, 24 Minutes
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September 13 2019
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Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K Tests for a future article on Phoronix. ,,"Core i7 3960X","Ryzen 5 2600X","Ryzen 5 3600X","Core i7 8700K" Processor,,Intel Core i7-3960X (6 Cores / 12 Threads),AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core @ 3.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core (6 Cores / 12 Threads),Intel Core i7-8700K @ 4.70GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads) Motherboard,,Intel DX79SI (SIX7910J.86A.0494.2012.0424.1039 BIOS),MSI X470 GAMING M7 AC (MS-7B77) v1.0 (1.B2 BIOS),MSI X470 GAMING M7 AC (MS-7B77) v1.0 (1.B2 BIOS),ASUS TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING (2001 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Xeon E5/Core,AMD 17h,AMD Device 1480,Intel 8th Gen Core Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB,16384MB Disk,,500GB Samsung SSD 860,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7,256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7 Graphics,,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4GB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4GB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4GB,MSI AMD Radeon R7 370 / R9 270/370 OEM 4GB Network,,Intel 82579LM + Intel 82574L,Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 + Intel 8265 / 8275,Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 + Intel 8265 / 8275,Intel I219-V Audio,,,AMD Cape Verde/Pitcairn,AMD Cape Verde/Pitcairn,Realtek ALC887-VD OS,,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04 Kernel,,5.0.0-27-generic (x86_64),5.0.0-27-generic (x86_64),5.0.0-27-generic (x86_64),5.0.0-27-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.28.4,GNOME Shell 3.28.4,GNOME Shell 3.28.4,GNOME Shell 3.28.4 Display Server,,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4 Compiler,,GCC 7.4.0,GCC 7.4.0,GCC 7.4.0,GCC 7.4.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 ,,"Core i7 3960X","Ryzen 5 2600X","Ryzen 5 3600X","Core i7 8700K" "Ethr - 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Method: Set (Operations/sec)",HIB,20220.25,46302.80,70814.79,80473.33 "Memcached mcperf - Method: Delete (Operations/sec)",HIB,30647.04,71325.20,89224.67,141600.43 "Node.js Express HTTP Load Test - (Reqs/sec)",HIB,2831,7640,11147,10209 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,234468.32,1526561.00,1817129.83,2171453.13 "Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,254684.73,2018975.29,2417559.92,3010738.02 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,12385.75,26111.05,37970.58,31914.46 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,10505.26,33523.33,42426.09,42424.71 "Selenium - Benchmark: Speedometer - Browser: Google Chrome (Runs/min)",HIB,40.96,103,138.77,104 "Selenium - Benchmark: Jetstream - Browser: Google Chrome (Score)",HIB,80.45,190.79,228.55,195.61 "Selenium - Benchmark: Jetstream 2 - Browser: Google Chrome (Score)",HIB,53.22,116.81,147.69,114.98 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,235105,507117,625727,758293 "ctx_clock - Context Switch Time (Clocks)",LIB,1103,180,167,913 "Ethr - Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 1 (us)",LIB,55.22,16.60,12.17,10.04 "Ethr - Server Address: localhost - Protocol: TCP - Test: Latency - Threads: 16 (us)",LIB,55.20,17.19,12.15,10.01 "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,2660,1189,999,900 "Selenium - Benchmark: ARES-6 - Browser: Google Chrome (ms)",LIB,55.98,24.21,18.95,24.96 "Renaissance - Test: Akka Unbalanced Cobwebbed Tree (ms)",LIB,21180.91,13173.62,10946.43,9209.69 "Renaissance - Test: Savina Reactors.IO (ms)",LIB,40122.91,20878.29,17676.76,18324.20 "Renaissance - Test: Apache Spark ALS (ms)",LIB,11065.18,6388.00,5109.84,4776.16 "Renaissance - Test: Apache Spark Bayes (ms)",LIB,11543.53,6933.28,6026.75,5269.47 "Renaissance - Test: Apache Spark PageRank (ms)",LIB,43125.40,23788.07,19969.75,17738.32 "Renaissance - Test: In-Memory Database Shootout (ms)",LIB,11561.01,6759.95,5639.99,4868.02 "Renaissance - Test: Scala Dotty (ms)",LIB,15878.29,7533.29,5574.89,5603.04 "Renaissance - Test: Twitter Finagle (ms)",LIB,13352.21,7165.98,5309.06,5113.37 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: H2 (msec)",LIB,5584,3816,2714,2851 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Jython (msec)",LIB,10606,5432,4190,3371 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradebeans (msec)",LIB,10943,4984,3087,2805 "Go Benchmarks - Test: build (ns/op)",LIB,35718599058,16257025105,12405891598,11705159975 "Go Benchmarks - Test: json (ns/op)",LIB,18107584,8580706,7723309,7316723 "Go Benchmarks - Test: garbage (ns/op)",LIB,3656071,1870500,1637514,1504492 "Hackbench - Count: 8 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,75.70,22.48,19.53,30.51 "Hackbench - Count: 16 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,149.58,48.43,40.90,59.87 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Pod2html (sec)",LIB,0.32326695,0.14825815,0.11744902,0.09999305 "Perl Benchmarks - Test: Interpreter (sec)",LIB,0.00176760,0.00115559,0.00062107,0.00077990 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,247.25,110.49,83.51,89.90 "Timed Apache Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,48.30,25.00,18.31,18.97 "Timed PHP Compilation - 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Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,63.35,51.70,42.61,34.84 "Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,40.00,37.77,29.16,25.75 "Scikit-Learn - (sec)",LIB,28.57,16.30,12.08,11.92 "Sockperf - Test: Latency Ping Pong (usec)",LIB,11.55,4.00,2.90,2.96 "Geometric Mean Of All Test Results - Result Composite - Core i7 3960X vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs. Core i7 8700K (Geometric Mean)",HIB,5.005,11.552,14.518,14.271 "Number Of First Place Finishes - Wins - 67 Tests (Wins)",,,,35,32